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2011 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
A Corpus-Based Study on Vocabulary of College English Coursebooks
Authors : Yanhong Liu, Zequan Liu
Published in: Advanced Research on Computer Science and Information Engineering
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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This study bases on self-built “College English Coursebook Corpus”, using Cunningsworth [1] theories, taking College English Curriculum Requirements (Requirements) [2] as criterion, with a combination of quantitative and qualitative approach to explore the vocabulary of four sets of coursebooks. The comparative study on vocabulary includes four aspects: vocabulary size, coverage, distribution and frequency. It is hoped that the statistics examined in this study would be of some help for English teachers to take above aspects of vocabulary into account in teaching practice and possibly for administrators to adjust curriculum design and for editors or publishers to revise existing coursebooks.